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A second group, allegedly involved in a “kill crew,” has been charged by police today in connection with last year’s abduction and murder of a crime syndicate member’s wife in Sydney.
On the night of April 17, around 10:30 p.m., 45-year-old Thi Kim Tran was reportedly taken from her Bankstown residence by a group of men who allegedly broke in and kidnapped her at gunpoint.
The intruders are said to have brutally attacked an eight-year-old boy with a baseball bat, leaving him in a coma, before forcing Tran into an SUV.
Another boy, aged 15, who was present during the home invasion, was transported to the hospital for evaluation.
Roughly an hour following the incident, a vehicle was discovered ablaze on Welfare Avenue in the nearby suburb of Beverly Hills.
Fire crews extinguished the blaze, but the car was destroyed and police found Tran dead inside.
Police allege the woman was likely targeted due to her husband’s involvement with a Victorian-based organised criminal network.
Four have been previously charged and remain before the courts.
Detectives will allege a second “kill crew” were waiting at a rural property in Victoria for Tran’s husband with the intention of killing him.
When he failed to appear, Sydney-based offenders allegedly kidnapped Tran in a bid to force his compliance, before ultimately killing her.
Since last December, five others have been charged over their alleged role in Tran’s abduction and murder.
On December 16, police arrested a 26-year-old man following a raid on a property in Monterey in southern Sydney.
Later on January 16, detectives arrested a man aged 22 at Sydney airport before they took into custody a 30-year-old man at the same location on February 21.
On March 16, two men â aged 18 and 25 â were arrested in Silverwater and Lithgow.
All were refused bail and charged with murder, firearms offences and participating in criminal group activity.
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